The older I get the less I'm impressed with the "superiority" of man. As a kid I was raised to believe animals had no feelings.

Living rather closely with a series of dogs, I can tell you they experience every emotion of which I'm capable, and, frankly, are better beings. More honest, and truer to themselves than I have been, by a ways.

I suspect the other species would be almost identical to me, too, if I could communicate a bit more easily.

I think people mature into a wider view of the world. Kids really aren't supposed to be thinking of anything but themselves. Otherwise they wouldn't be kids.

I hope as a species we mature in time to prevent too much damage. Technology has outrun wisdom by a long, long, long ways.

Arf